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Test: retry MddBootstrapInitialize on transient State Repository error (AB#62489699) #6596

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24 changes: 23 additions & 1 deletion test/inc/WindowsAppRuntime.Test.Bootstrap.h
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Expand Up @@ -130,7 +130,29 @@ namespace Test::Bootstrap
TP::WindowsAppRuntimeMain::c_PackageNamePrefix));
}

VERIFY_SUCCEEDED(MddBootstrapInitialize(version_MajorMinor, nullptr, minVersion));
// AB#62489699: On slow/loaded test agents (observed on the x86 Win10 22H2 stage) the State

@DrusTheAxe Howard Kapustein (DrusTheAxe) Aug 13, 2026

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What is AB#62489699?

If this is a reference to issue # 62489699 in the internal Microsoft tracker, use the task.ms URL e.g.

// https://task.ms/62489699 blah blah blah

// Repository can still be indexing the DDLM package we just installed when the bootstrapper
// enumerates it, so MddBootstrapInitialize fails with STATEREPOSITORY_E_DEPENDENCY_NOT_RESOLVED

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That's not how it works. Indexing happens as part of Stage, Add and Register if the package is not on the machine. If you "just installed" a package (using any of the above) then, by definition the package has been indexed.

See There is no Install – it’s ‘Stage’ and ‘Register’ for (some) more information.

Can you explain what deployment operation(s) you're doing before this, where you think you're seeing a transient failure?

// (0x80670016). This is transient and clears once indexing completes, so retry with a bounded
// backoff. Only this specific HRESULT is retried; any other failure is verified immediately and
// is not masked.
constexpr HRESULT c_stateRepositoryDependencyNotResolved{ static_cast<HRESULT>(0x80670016) }; // STATEREPOSITORY_E_DEPENDENCY_NOT_RESOLVED
constexpr UINT32 c_maxInitAttempts{ 10 };
constexpr DWORD c_initRetryDelayMs{ 300 };
HRESULT initHR{ E_FAIL };
for (UINT32 attempt = 1; attempt <= c_maxInitAttempts; ++attempt)
{
initHR = MddBootstrapInitialize(version_MajorMinor, nullptr, minVersion);
if (SUCCEEDED(initHR) || (initHR != c_stateRepositoryDependencyNotResolved) || (attempt == c_maxInitAttempts))
{
break;
}
WEX::Logging::Log::Comment(WEX::Common::String().Format(
L"MddBootstrapInitialize returned STATEREPOSITORY_E_DEPENDENCY_NOT_RESOLVED (0x%X); State Repository likely still indexing the just-installed package. Attempt %u/%u. Retrying after %ums.",
initHR, attempt, c_maxInitAttempts, c_initRetryDelayMs));
Sleep(c_initRetryDelayMs);
}
VERIFY_SUCCEEDED(initHR);
s_bootstrapDll = std::move(bootstrapDll);
}

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